<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Timothée,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for connecting - great you are happy to participate :-) And apologies for not getting back in touch sooner.</div><div class="">Robert and I will come back some time next week with some suggested dates for a kick-off meeting… and a Plan :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Have a good weekend, meanwhile,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frances<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Aug 2021, at 15:27, Timothée Giet <<a href="mailto:animtim@gmail.com" class="">animtim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Frances,<br class=""><br class="">I didn't answer before as you said you'll get back in touch later, but<br class="">just to confirm, I'd be glad to participate ;)<br class="">Same availability as Aish.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">Timothée<br class=""><br class="">Le 25/08/2021 à 10:41, Frances Tait a écrit :<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Welcome, Timothée! And thanks Aśwarya for your availability and other<br class="">comments.<br class=""><br class="">I’ll be in touch again later this week after a pow-wow with the team here.<br class=""><br class="">Frances<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 24 Aug 2021, at 20:55, Aiśwarya KK <<a href="mailto:aiswaryakk29@gmail.com" class="">aiswaryakk29@gmail.com</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:aiswaryakk29@gmail.com" class="">mailto:aiswaryakk29@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello again Frances,<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Emmanuel, Everyone,<br class=""><br class="">On discussing this with the team, we felt this topic merits its own<br class="">video, not just a news item, (probably via Zoom or similar<br class="">- unfortunately we are still under too many restrictions to risk<br class="">actual filming, I think). We hope you’d still like to contribute, of<br class="">course.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Good idea!<br class=""><br class="">Here we would go for Jitsi instead of Zoom 😉<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Essentially we are looking to follow the trail from creation of the<br class="">software (with reference to Qt, we hope, and KDE) to how it helps<br class="">teachers, where it’s used, how it's received, just as you suggest.<br class=""><br class="">This means starting with a conversation with Timothëe, who doesn’t<br class="">even know about this yet :-).<br class=""></blockquote>I added Timothée in CC.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Perhaps you (Emmanuel and Aiśwarya) can give us some idea of your<br class="">availability (CEST time) in the coming couple of weeks so we can<br class="">propose an initial online meeting to talk about it - assuming you’re<br class="">still interested.<br class=""></blockquote>I am available from 18:30 to 20:30 during week days.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">Aish<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Meanwhile I shall talk to Timothée and see if he’s happy to join us..<br class=""><br class="">All the best,<br class=""><br class="">Frances<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 24 Aug 2021, at 12:29, Emmanuel Charruau <<a href="mailto:echarruau@gmail.com" class="">echarruau@gmail.com</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:echarruau@gmail.com" class="">mailto:echarruau@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class="">I am also happy to participate. My knowledge of GCompris in class is<br class="">only restricted to my own usage but I could for example explain how<br class="">GCompris helps on several key moments of teaching:<br class="">- notion presentation<br class="">- explicit research<br class="">- research with two pupils<br class="">- research alone<br class="">- training<br class="">and how it eases to organise the work in groups of needs instead of<br class="">the usual unique group that we find so often in classes.<br class="">Regards,<br class="">Emmanuel<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Le mar. 24 août 2021 à 12:22, Aiśwarya KK <<a href="mailto:aiswaryakk29@gmail.com" class="">aiswaryakk29@gmail.com</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:aiswaryakk29@gmail.com" class="">mailto:aiswaryakk29@gmail.com</a>>> a écrit :<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Hello Frances,<br class=""><br class="">I am happy to participate. Just a correction, I am not a teacher<br class="">by profession but I have a good network of teachers from south India.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you so much!<br class="">Aish<br class=""><br class="">Le 24/08/2021 à 10:54, Frances Tait a écrit :<br class=""><br class="">Hi Paul,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for the prompt reply.<br class=""><br class="">On 23 Aug 2021, at 21:27, Paul Brown <<a href="mailto:paul.brown@kde.org" class="">paul.brown@kde.org</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:paul.brown@kde.org" class="">mailto:paul.brown@kde.org</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On Monday, 23 August 2021 16:33:46 CEST Frances Tait wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Folks,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Hello Frances,<br class=""><br class="">How are you doing?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Good, thanks. Hope you are as well.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">We’re thinking of doing a feature on Education for Kids in our October<br class="">edition of KDAB News<br class=""><<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f" class="">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f</a><br class=""><<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f" class="">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6iAaspdiKGS0Bs2wDOIVj8f</a>>><br class="">Might KDE have something to contribute to that? We’d be looking,<br class="">probably,<br class="">to Zoom interview somebody who could talk about what’s on offer<br class="">via KDE,<br class="">how it’s being received, who’s interested, something like that.<br class=""><br class="">We came across Kturtle and KAlgebra, but perhaps there’s also<br class="">something else<br class="">you might want to suggest. Wed be happy to have suggestions on an<br class="">angle<br class="">that allows you to tell viewers about your stuff.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">What about GCompris?<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html" class="">https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html</a><br class=""><https://www.gcompris.net/index-en.html><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">This is great - thank you. Just what we were looking for. Albert<br class="">also alerted me to this, and to Timothée, who programs it.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">That is arguably our most popular educational software, used<br class="">literally in<br class="">thousands of schools worldwide to educate hundreds of thousands of<br class="">kids.<br class=""><br class="">I am putting Aiśwarya and Emmanuel, both teachers, both experts in<br class="">GCompris,<br class="">on CC. They would probably be the best people to ask about the<br class="">software and<br class="">how and where it is used.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Very good to meet you, Aiśwarya and Emmanuel. Would you be willing<br class="">to be interviewed for our KDAB News?<br class=""><br class="">I appreciate that’s a bit vague! We’re figuring out how to present<br class="">something on kids education and likely yours won’t be the only one<br class="">we’ll talk about, so it’s a bit unclear yet how we’ll do it/how<br class="">much time we’ll have.<br class=""><br class="">Let me discuss this with the News team and we'll come back with<br class="">some ideas. Perhaps next step is a meeting to talk about it.<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks again,<br class=""><br class="">Frances<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class=""><br class="">Paul<br class="">--<br class="">Promotion & Communication<br class=""><br class="">www: http://kde.org<br class="">Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@kde<br class="">Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/<br class="">Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity<br class="">LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----<br class=""><br class="">Frances Tait | frances.tait@kdab.com | Marketing and Partner relations<br class="">Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company<br class="">Tel: Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322)<br class="">KDAB - The Qt, OpenGL and C++ Experts<br class=""><br class="">www.kdab.com<br class="">Twitter: @KDABQt<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">----<br class=""><br class="">Frances Tait | <a href="mailto:frances.tait@kdab.com" class="">frances.tait@kdab.com</a> <<a href="mailto:frances.tait@kdab.com" class="">mailto:frances.tait@kdab.com</a>><br class="">| Marketing and Partner relations<br class="">Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company<br class="">Tel: Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322)<br class="">KDAB - The Qt, OpenGL and C++ Experts<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.kdab.com" class="">www.kdab.com</a> <<a href="https://www.kdab.com/" class="">https://www.kdab.com/</a>><br class="">Twitter: @KDABQt<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">----<br class=""><br class="">Frances Tait | <a href="mailto:frances.tait@kdab.com" class="">frances.tait@kdab.com</a> <<a href="mailto:frances.tait@kdab.com" class="">mailto:frances.tait@kdab.com</a>> |<br class="">Marketing and Partner relations<br class="">Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company<br class="">Tel: Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322)<br class="">KDAB - The Qt, OpenGL and C++ Experts<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.kdab.com" class="">www.kdab.com</a> <<a href="https://www.kdab.com/" class="">https://www.kdab.com/</a>><br class="">Twitter: @KDABQt<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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